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Re:Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System by danieldk on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @02:23PM (#5745658)
There's a world outside the US. E.g. in most of Europe there are virtually no Netflix or Hulu-like services. Nearly everyone uses a Cable or DVB-T service.

A bit painful, considering that my ISP just announced to upgrade my connection from 120/10 MBit/s to 150/15. The bandwidth is there, but I guess it's hard to make licensing arrangements.

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Re:Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System by potatolicious on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @02:26PM (#5745679)
Even in the US, even in areas with good enough broadband to stream all your content, people still care about broadcast television because of sports. MS's focus here with ESPN and the NFL is bang-on.
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Re:Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System by moheeb on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:24PM (#5746948)
"MS's focus here with ESPN and the NFL is bang-on."

I disagree. They managed to partner with the NFL but yet not show any games. Most of the games for my favorite team I still can't watch. Seems really lame to me.

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